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Basic Web Hosting
This is the second in a series of blog posts about Southwest Cyberport web hosting plans. If you missed the first one, you can view it here. You can also read about the technical details of SWCP’s web hosting infrastructure on our companion blog. This article will explain the Basic Plan, and what type of sites it works well for. Basic Plan Cost: $15/month Features are 200 MB of storage, 10 GB of monthly transfer, basic web statistics, VLW, and certain web applications. The Basic Plan is appropriate for web sites that need more storage than the Starter plan provides, or some basic web application, such as a blog or forum. Sites on the Basic plan often contain a gallery of images or PDF’s that require more storage space than the Starter Plan. This is also the plan if you are looking to start a blog. The premiere blogging software on the web is WordPress, and it is available in this plan by one-click install. More and more people are finding they can happily manage their entire website with WordPress, in fact. You can create your Basic site with any web authoring software that builds standards compliant web pages. Alternatively, you can use WordPress to build and edit your site. WordPress is a web application originally designed for blogging, but that has grown into the web’s most popular content management system. It enables you to use your web browser to … Continue reading
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Southwest Cyberport Web Hosting
Did you know that Southwest Cyberport is a full service web host? We are here to take as much fear and uncertainty out of web hosting as we can. SWCP offers a range of plans to fit different needs. We answer the phone, if you have questions. Or email, if you prefer. We will not make you feel stupid, and we will help you. That is our pledge. I will be writing a series of posts about Southwest Cyberport’s web hosting plans: Starter, Basic, and Pro. These posts will explain the features of each plan, and what type of site is appropriate for each. If you are interested, you can also read about the technical details of SWCP’s web hosting infrastructure on our companion blog, SWCP’s Webdev Blog. I will start with, you guessed it, Starter. Starter Plan Cost: $7/month Features are 20 MB of storage, 1 GB of monthly transfer, and basic web statistics. VLW site builder available on request. The Starter plan is appropriate for simple web sites. A typical Starter site has a small number of pages, and does not include any web applications, such as a blog or forum. For example, if you have a small business and want a simple site that describes your business, its location and your contact information, the Starter plan is for you. The Starter plan is also appropriate for a simple personal site, where you might display your resume, for … Continue reading
Search Engine Round-Up
Google reigns as the undisputed king of the jungle, but there’s plenty of other critters in this zoo. Despite – or perhaps because of – its predominance and scope, Google may not be the best for every inquiry where personal privacy concerns or a particularly obscure topic is involved. What follows is a list – by no means comprehensive — of some current search engines. They are divided into two types: general or open in nature, and specialized or closed. The major difference is that specialized search engines are either dedicated to a particular topic, or limit the search arena to preselected categories usually from a drop-down menu or scrolling pane. These days, neither type of tool stands as alone as they once frequently did. If general in nature, they may be part of a huge content portal offering numerous other services, like maps and translating tools and email. Specialized ones are just as likely to be a feature of large sites, such as online department stores and libraries, but just about every merchant with a website has a some search capability available. We’ll only be able to look at a few samples of the most popular, useful, or offbeat ones.